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Life & Culture
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
Surveys, studies and reports this year point to an increasingly vegan world
And some newly uncovered information even shows that humans historically ate less meat than we thought.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Chores are barely done, but never too early to shop for next year’s gardening season
Some great local catalogs encourage buying and daydreaming on cold winter days.
Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes
‘Twas a greener night before Christmas
Out with the sugar plums, in with the recycled wrapping paper. (But we do like that renewable-energy-powered reindeer vehicle.)
Posted inOn this date
Dec. 24, 1964: Two burned in explosion-fed fire in Augusta, two makers counting on a ‘hep’ Santa, and Pope Paul VI gives a Christmas wish
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Posted inKennebec Journal, Life & Culture, Maine
Randolph woman finds balance in belly dancing after overcoming cancer
Karen Ferroni, formerly a high-ranking hospital administrator, turned 70 this year and is now teaching a belly dancing class in Augusta.
Posted inBooks, Life & Culture, Maine Authors
BUSHNELL ON BOOKS: ‘Soft Features’ and ‘A Countryman’s Journal’
A debut novel by central Maine author Gillian Burnes, and a collection of 77 essays by Roy Barrette
Posted inOn this date
Dec. 23, 1946: Three men die in Anson & Waterville fires, Maine college population is two-thirds vets, and Maine’s own flying Santa is ready to go
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Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘The Bishop’s Wife’ a forbidden love story
“The Bishop’s Wife” (released Feb. 16, 1948), one of the prominent contenders for best Christmas movie of the century and certainly a film studded with three of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time, is clearly a a forbidden love story. Hold on to your string of pearls. Egad! You mean the story of how […]
Posted inOn this date
Dec. 22, 1992: Somerset County honors fallen deputy sheriff, an Oakland mobile home park will be auctioned, and students from Fairfield Primary School organize a human chair for a good cause
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